Antwerp, Belgium, Has 5,000 Secondhand Graves for Sale

City Is Taking a Novel Approach to Preserving Its Tombstone Heritage

ANTWERP, Belgium—Jacques Buermans, 66 years old, hopes he still has a long life ahead. Yet he has already found his final resting place: someone else's grave.

The antique sepulchers and headstones of the Schoonselhof cemetery here were gleaming in the spring sunshine recently as the Antwerp-born retiree made his weekly visit to his impeccably maintained future tomb, formerly home to the corpses of the Belgian-British family...